updated 05:10 pm EST, Wed December 8, 2010

BlackBerry 6 may hit Verizon phones after flyer

A flyer sent to a CrackBerry forum poster today hinted that Verizon's promised BlackBerry 6 updates for its phones were coming very soon. The ad boasts of giving the "social life the power of your business life" with the new OS and lists both the Bold 9650 and the Curve 3G as having BlackBerry 6 installed. While not giving a clue as to the timing, it suggested Verizon was about to ship phones with the platform preloaded and would push upgrades in a similar timeframe.

Neither Verizon nor RIM has confirmed the plans. Verizon already said it would upgrade the Curve 3G, and recent Bold models were included in RIM's longterm upgrades, but neither had given out a specific timeframe. BlackBerry 6 rollouts have had to wait both on RIM and on customizing firmware for the individual carriers.

The update brings a major and primarily visual interface overhaul as well as a new WebKit-based browser and social integration that can merge Twitter and other features into a single messaging feed.

Its now Dec 15th

A week later as I'm a VZ customer that got this flyer that promises OS6 and the company store or VZ cust service doesn't know anything about it. The flier says nothing about a pending upgrade it pushes it as being available. As of tonight , they're still selling these two phones with OS5.x. Nor are the willing to promise that if I buy these phones that an update will or will not be available. I like the messaging functionality of Blackberry but I want to be able to do something like surf the internet? Yeah something crazy like that. VZ you may be ruining my wifes new phone for Christmas or at the very least the millions of people like me that got this false advertising. .. brilliant.